The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-19
The O'Brien in Canada.

TORONTO, May lo.-iuS AHCuKSAOA VI
O'Brien, the Irish agltator. seems TO
have changed the whole face OF Canada's
politics, and it is thought will have an
important bearing on the future Of
parties and policies in the Dominion.
The Catholics also spoke regretfully III
regard to the Fenian invasion OF twenty
years ago, bat don't speak so now, and
the Orangemen who talked in a deter
mined manner about O'Briens
'inyasion" say that if he at
tempted to speak here again
he would probably pay the penalty
with his life. Orangemen seem to feel
that; theylhave committed a blunder.
not in having attacked the speakers and
disturbing the meeting, but in not
having done so half we'll enough. As
evidence that the Orangemen are nos
solid against him, O'Brien furnishes
for publication to-day with the remark
"Look at that, boys, the most powerful
indictment that has yet been drawn
up against Lansdowne and his rowdy
defenders, and the most complete
vindication OF my action IN this matter,
l6II6I 1IOIA OAdhSCAiiOh oAoAcN
"Aceton," in which O'Brien is upheld
and the action of Lansdowne denoun-
ced. At $50 O'Clock, President ]. A.
Mulligan of the local branch OF the
national league, called at the hotel and
asked o Brien to 60 out and have walk.
d. P. Cahill, Dennis Kilbride, evlcted
tenant, and J. n. Wall, special icorres
pendent of the New York Tribune, were
present and suggested it would not be
prudent to venture out, as darkness
! had fallen, and a crowd OF
about two hundred rowdies had
gathered round the hotel, Kissing loudly
and grooming. O'Brien. however, per
sisted in going. The crowd grew III
numbers and turbulence and surged up
to the very spot where O'Brien and
others were standing. They groaneG
and Kissed into O'Brien's face such
cries as Away Traitor" Down with
the Dynamiter," and "God save the
Queen" a riot seemed immiRent as
the Orangemen were armed witA stout
sticks, Just as they were at the meeting
in Queens Park. They came up 10
O'Brien as he strobe along YORK
street and jolted against him, making
several attempts to strike him on the
head with their sticks. He lodged the
blows, however, and his friends rallied
around him, but they were as
one to fifty. Two policemen stood
near, but made no effort to
disr erse the mob. As the party turned
into Bay Street, Cahiu had his hat
knocked off by stone. Now the
Orangemen began their real attack,
: for Bay Street furnished good oppor'
bricks and cobble stones. O'BrIer
had on a tall hat, which furnished
good target. Wall was on his right
! and Kilbride and Mulligan were on III;
Look out, o'Brien." shouted Wall
> "stones are coming. It's Belfast over
FITS all right" replied O'Brien. II
would be better for LaEsdowne If the.
!, let Us alone"
q AS he spoke, Yolley OF bricks ant
= cobblestones came flying from tn
Orangemen, grazing their heads, bu
= knocking the plastering of adlacen
. walls. Shouts of ITO hell with tn
e Pope" Kill the traitor" and 9
Z on. rose high above the din. Th
= O'Brien's party were still on the Sue
81 walk, and the Orangemen throngln
the street. D. T. Kellogg. reporter {
the New/York Sun, now rushed benin
O'Brien, and was about to warn hin
when q stone struck O'Brlen's ha
and I knocked it of. Brie
u stopped his head, and Wall. wh
lie was standing by his side, lifted b
IN head to look in the direction whene
- the missiles came, when huge stor
L struck him on the side of the head an
+ tumbled him heels over head. He Wa
r carried to drug store where his wount
% were dressed. O'Brien attempted to tai
Z. refuge in Sharpe's laundry, but faiiin
OF in that, rushed to the bicycle store al
n Joining. A Yolley of stones shattere
s., 3. the windows, and the mob burst Int
y the store, acting like demons, an
al showered missiles in the dlrecuo
u. in which 0'Brien was. Son
nj ladies and several old women screams
IS, and tainted, while the mob tumble
Sc pell nell over the machinery, smashir
e them one against the other in savai
ne fury, and cries of xiii Il
er traitors" Tang him." "LansdoWl
on for ever. :" 4B len, however, was safe
ad led away , thu officers, and reach'
az the hotel IL sate;y. Cahiu was knock'
ne down and received two severe cuts, al
n. more than a score of others were L